Introduction Flashcards
Grew from observations of recovery and subsequent protection from certain infectious diseases.
IMMUNITY
Immunity
Derived from the Latin term____, meaning “exempt.”
immunis
He noted that, only those who had recovered could nurse the sick because they did not contract the disease a second time.
THUCYDIDES
Greek Historian
430 BC: Described a plague in Athens.
THUCYDIDES
First Attempts to Induce Immunity
VARIOLATION
Chinese and Turkish Contributions
(15th Century)
Dried smallpox crusts inhaled or inserted into cuts (______)
variolation
Observed variolation in Turkey
Had her own children variolated
Advocated smallpox inoculation to
Britain
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1718)
Noticed that milkmaids with cowpox (Vaccinia virus) seem to be immune to acquiring smallpox (Variola virus)
• “Vacca” = cow
EDWARD JENNER (1798)
Smallpox virus
Variola virus
.
Experiment
Inoculated an 8-year-old boy with cowpox fluid
.
Boy became immune to smallpox
EDWARD JENNER (1798)
Cowpox virus
Vaccinia virus
EDWARD JENNER (1798)
The cowpox and smallpox viruses belong to the same family,______,
and share similar structural proteins and antigens.
Because of the antigenic similarity between cowpox and smallpox viruses, the______ generated in response to cowpox can recognize and respond to smallpox virus if it later enters the body.
Poxviridae
memory cells
Father of Immunology
LOUIS PASTEUR
LOUIS PASTEUR father if
IMMUNOLOGY
Discovery
• Noted that old bacterial cultures caused illness but not death in chickens
Fresh culture killed unexposed chickens, but not those previously exposed
Louis Pasteur
Hypothesis:
Aging weakens pathogen virulence
Weakened (attenuated) strains provide immunity
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur
Hypothesis:
_____weakens pathogen virulence
Weakened (attenuated) strains provide____
Aging
immunity
LOUIS PASTEUR
• Discovery
. Noted that ______caused illness but not death in chickens
.______ killed unexposed chickens, but not those previously exposed
old bacterial cultures
Fresh culture
Pasteur
He called the attenuated strain:
Vaccine
Vaccinated sheep with heat-attenuated anthrax bacteria (Bacillus anthracis)
Vaccinated sheep survived; unvaccinated sheep died
Anthrax Experiment
By Pasteur
First human vaccination on____
Boy survived rabies exposure
Rabies Vaccine (1885)
Joseph Meister
By Pasteur
Founded to treat rabies victims
. Continues to focus on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases
Pasteur Institute (1887)
Percent of herd immunity
70%
if lots of people are vaccinated
…then the disease can’t spread very far, so the whole community stays safe.
This is ‘______’
herd immunity
Resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.
HERD IMMUNITY
SMALLPOX ERADICATION
• Last known case of naturally acquired smallpox was in______
Somalia, 1977.
Smallpox eradication was achieved through________
This remains among the most notable and profound public health successes in history.
universal vaccination